• Date

    No new dates currently available

  • Location

    Washington DC area, USA

  • Duration

    Ten days, including arrival and departure days

  • Language

    English

  • Number of participants

    A minimum of participants is required

  • Participation Fee

Workshop & Field Trips

Anyone who keeps, works with, trades, transports, cares for, medicates, sells, buys, or otherwise interacts with animals and plants, or simply spends time in the outdoors, encounters legal obligations and regulations at various levels.

This seminar offers a comprehensive insight into the most important national and international legal frameworks. Special emphasis is placed on understanding the different perspectives of these legal requirements, their practical application, and ensuring correct compliance across a range of activities.

Accommodation

Hotel bookings to be made by participants

Flights

For example: Home Airport – Washington DC – home Airport; travel arrangements to be made by participants

Zero Risk

In the event that the programme cannot take place due to COVID-19 or other travel restrictions, we guarantee a full refund of all payments already made, with no deductions.

Programme *

During presentations and round-table discussions with US authorities, including the US Fish and Wildlife Service, representatives of zoos and zoo organisations, scientists, and environmental and animal welfare organisations, the following topics will be addressed:

  • Trade in wild species & species protection
  • Invasive alien species
  • International conventions
  • Hunting & fisheries
  • The roles of zoos & aquaria
  • Management, protection and restoration of populations, habitats & ecosystems

Expert-guided visits will also be included to protected areas, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.

* Programme subject to change

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